Julia hymen is watching the markets as stocks climb on the republican victories. We begin with a reporter round table on the midterm elections. White house cordens Phil Mattingly and margaret have analysis has america looks at a new political dynamic for barack obama. Phil, let me start with you. Did the white house really not see this coming . No, mark. I think they had a good sense of what was going to happen, especially over the days leading up to the election. I do think that it ended up being the wave, the wave, the number of seats that have gone down, seven already with the possibility of two more was more than any democrats were able to comprehend going into this. But the president s Political Team had stayed in pretty close touch with the Congressional Campaign committees and had been briefing him regularly. He was calling for numbers throughout the day. Was interested in it. Mark, they had a sense it was coming. Just didnt maybe grasp the scope of it. Margaret, where did the d
Money. Its inside story. It all seems like such a long time ago. The president announced he was going to allow certain undocumented immigrants to head to the back of the line for deportation using give authority. The republicans said basically that you cant do that, but to make sure the policy couldnt go in effect, republicans funded the department of hopeland security Homeland Security temporarily saying if the president dont back off, they wont fund dhs. Republicans took control of both houses of congress. The day drew near, the house passed money. Without funding for the programme, the senate couldnt do the same because Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell couldnt get the 60 votes. Here we are. We passed a bill to fund the department of Homeland Security six weeks ago, six weeks ago. Time for the senate to act. So the speaker of the house is sticking to the original bill, funding dhs without action. The majority leader of the senate cant pass the bill and is trying to split the initiativ
The policy, politics and brinksmanship and running a department with no aprop reeted money. Its inside story. It all seems like such a long time ago. The president announced he was going to allow certain undocumented immigrants to head to the back of the line for deportation using give authority. The republicans said basically that you cant do that, but to make sure the policy couldnt go in effect, republicans funded the department of hopeland security Homeland Security temporarily saying if the president dont back off, they wont fund dhs. Republicans took control of both houses of congress. The day drew near, the house passed money. Without funding for the programme, the senate couldnt do the same because Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell couldnt get the 60 votes. Here we are. We passed a bill to fund the department of Homeland Security six weeks ago, six weeks ago. Time for the senate to act. So the speaker of the house is sticking to the original bill, funding dhs without action. The
From the ledge they climbed out of. Well help you dissect the policy politics and brinksmanship and running a department with no aprop reeted money. Its inside story. It all seems like such a long time ago. The president announced he was going to allow certain undocumented immigrants to head to the back of the line for deportation using give authority. The republicans said basically that you cant do that but to make sure the policy couldnt go in effect, republicans funded the department of hopeland security Homeland Security temporarily saying if the president dont back off, they wont fund dhs. Republicans took control of both houses of congress. The day drew near the house passed money. Without funding for the programme, the senate couldnt do the same because Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell couldnt get the 60 votes. Here we are. We passed a bill to fund the department of Homeland Security six weeks ago six weeks ago. Time for the senate to act. So the speaker of the house is sticking
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